August 19, 2008 – 2:11 pm
Technology is changing your brain - and the brains of your learners. So where does that leave education? Are we adequately preparing learners for the workforce of the future?
Make sure you and your brain don’t miss out on the Mind over Matter seminar in Sydney on Tuesday, 26 August. If you haven’t registered yet — you have until close of business this Friday, 22 August to grab a spot.
If you have registered — there are a few accounts available for free wireless access, but we need to know if you want/need it by NOON ACST tomorrow (Wednesday 20 August). Send an email to sbradley@educuationau.edu.au
For you bloggers, Tweeters, Flickr-ers and taggers — the tags for the day are mind_over_matter and eduauseminars
If you and your brain can’t make it to the event - we will be Live Blogging all day on this blog — starting from 9am AEST. You can not only get a summary of the presentations and discussion, but can ask questions and make comments live during the event. The results will be archived. We’ve done this for past events such as the National E-portfolio Symposium - see the archive on my education.au KerryJ’s blog site.
Dr. Martin Westwell is the Director of the Flinders Centre for Science Education in the 21st Century and former Deputy Director of the Institute for the Future of the Mind at Oxford University. In this interview with KerryJ, he discusses the impact technology has on the wiring of our brains, explodes a few myths about muiltaskign and provides an overview of the upcoming education.au seminar Mind over matter: how technology matters in Sydney on 26 August 2008.
This conference brought together an eclectic mix of people from across disciplines of studies, countries and areas of work and government. The Creative Commons Australia team organised the free one-day symposium to explore the emerging Australasian Commons.The day was also significant in that Creative Commons (CC), in association with Creative Commons Australia, officially announced the release of the Case Studies Project. At the conference the project was announced with the launch of the booklet of some of the global case studies. The project invites the CC Community to go to the wiki and share stories about how they use CC on a daily basis. It is definitely worth a look as it highlights the multitude of fantastic ways CC is changing the way we are accessing and providing access to information.
A series of short case studies from Australia were presented at the conference including:
- The Queensland governments GILF project. GILF - Government Information Licensing Framework - the project is set to lead the world in establishing a new approach to public sector information licensing
- youdecide2007 a nonprofit citizen journalism initiative led by the Creative Industries faculty at QUT
- The exciting Pool Project - an ABC project, which is still in Beta at the moment. Pool is a collaborative/creative place/space for people to share digital stories - a multimedia experience aimed at opening up the media sharing space. The project works with Radio National - finding out what producers needs are in the new world - while engaging with a young audience.
The day also included reports from CC Jurisdictions in Australasia by:
The two panel presentations: Creative Commons and Education and Creative Commons and Music provided a springboard for discussions in the nine separate workshops. The workshop leaders provided a facilitated report - with the outcome of these discussions providing the Creative Commons Australia team with significant work and challenges to continue with. A great day with lots of great networking, good food and entertainment completing the day.
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In this final of four podcasts from the National e-Portfolio Symposium held 11 June 2008 in Adelaide, South Australia, Suzanne Curyer, Manager of Career Services for education.au, shares the pre-symposium survey findings.
Visit the e-Portfolios section of the education.au web site for more resources relating to this event.
In the third of four podcasts from the National e-Portfolio Symposium held in Adelaide on 11 June 2008, Wendy Harper, the Associate Director of Teaching and Learning Support Services at the Queensland University of Technology provides an overview of the Australian e-Portfolio Project and shares the higher education sector experience.
Visit the e-Portfolios section of the education.au web site for more resources relating to this event.
In this second of four podcasts from the National e-Portfolio Symposium held in Adelaide on 11 June 2008, Allison Miller, Project Manager, e-Portfolio Business Activity, Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework) gives us the VET perspective on e-Portfolios.
Visit the e-Portfolios section of the education.au web site for more resources relating to this event.
In this first of four podcasts, Jerry Leeson, Business Solutions Manager for education.au takes us through current and emerging models for e-Portfolios.
Visit the e-Portfolios section of the education.au web site for more resources relating to this event.
The other three will be following in rapid succession - sorry to flood you like this, but we promised to get all of these up today!
In the final podcast from symposia “The Digital Education Revolution Realising the Possibilities, Managing the Realities” - Mark Pesce and Gerry White take questions from attendees and discuss the implications of technology, the revolution and what needs to happen to support educators.
In this fifth of six presentations from the symposia “The Digital Education Revolution Realising the Possibilities, Managing the Realities” - Shelagh Whittlestone, Branch Manager of the Digital Education Revolution (DER) task force in Canberra looks at what comes next.
In this fourth of six from the symposia “The Digital Education Revolution Realising the Possibilities, Managing the Realities” - consultant Michael Cowling shares the impressive work that Aberfoyle Park High School (8-12) does in integrating elearning technologies into their teaching practice.
